About HIP 66196
HIP 66196 is a trash star. It lies about 2,249.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cha and shines at apparent magnitude 8.9.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4800 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 9 EP
HIP 66196
RA 203.5263° · Dec -77.8607° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Star +3
Total score 9
6 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
Trivia
Sense of scale
- In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 8.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Chamaeleon.
- Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around April — that's when to go looking.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 39.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 22.5 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- -0.293
- bv
- 0.975
- constellation
- Cha
- dist ly
- 2249.3518
- luminosity
- 114.0775
- mag
- 8.9
- name
- HIP 66196
How to see it
Look for HIP 66196 in the constellation Cha. At apparent magnitude 8.9, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 66196 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why HIP 66196 is a trash star
HIP 66196 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Distant (over 1,000 light-years) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.